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Rule of orthography (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Pancito@lemmy.world to c/196
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[-] guriinii@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

How do you tell the difference when spoken?

[-] Pancito@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

Emphasis on different parts and context.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps

would sam altman never survive in germany

[-] Hugohase@kbin.social 30 points 11 months ago

Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily

Lots of spiders where you live?

[-] itslilith 7 points 11 months ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

Good question! Sometimes it's stress but sometimes just context

[-] fneu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.

In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.

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